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In nature there are no guarantees. Eventually you're going to trip and fall. Point is not to trip and fall all the time and recover quickly. That is just how it is. People will eventually pick their French Trump, then get sober, then revert back to someone normal (but hopefully not ancient years old and with the balls to fix problem directly).

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Pick another Hitler, and the kind of fall it will take to fix that problem will be World War III.

There won't be a World War IV. There won't be a world left.

Stalin was pretty Hitler-y. He also had nukes. Shit didn't go down.

Not saying we're in sunshine and lollipops land, free of total annihilation, but things have to get really, really extreme for this happen. Sure, Putin may be clinically retarded enough to believe in his fantasies, but do you really think his buddies will walk the walk to the end with him?

I think they are more afraid of him than anything else.

If Putin goes to push the button, they'll be too scared to try to stop him.

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